Main Street Waterbury has announced that the recipient of the 2017 Main Street Waterbury Community Partnership Award is Virginia "Ginny" O'Rourke Cookson, owner of O'Rourke & Birch Florist in Waterbury. O'Rourke Cookson will receive the third annual award during a presentation at the Palace Theater...

Seven Angels Theatre in Waterbury opens its 2017-18 season with the one-man, five-character show "The Male Intellect: An Oxymoron?" by Robert Dubac. The show, which ruminates on the age-old question "What do women want?" has been around for 20 years or so. Dubac hasn't been the only one performing...

The city and as many as 24 other Connecticut communities will announce Thursday that they are suing major pharmaceutical companies over the opioid crisis. Similar to lawsuits filed by dozens of states, counties and cities elsewhere in the country, Waterbury intends to claim drug manufacturers helped...

Fall in Connecticut perenially offers familiar scenes and new ones, and it's no different on the state's stages. This autumn, audiences will see major national tours of long-established hits like "Phantom of the Opera" and "Les Miserables," but also the first tour of a fresh young show like "School...

Four World War II-era airplanes that played key roles in the defeat of Nazi Germany and Japan will tour Connecticut Sept. 5 through 13 with stops at Sikorsky Memorial Airport in Stratford, Waterbury-Oxford Airport in Oxford and Groton-New London Airport in Groton. The airplanes, three bombers and...

New Haven County

Thumbs up to Yale University for renaming the dining room in Calhoun residential college after a black alumnus. The dining hall, now named for Roosevelt Thompson, is where Corey Menafee, an African-American dining hall worker, broke a stained glass window that depicted slaves carrying baskets of...

Connecticut News

An East Hartford man admitted Tuesday that he drove recklessly the night of a crash that killed two men and injured a third. Gustavo Moreno, 25, was not behind the wheel of the car involved in the fatal crash, but was speeding and passing the vehicle that crashed, prosecutor Donna Mambrino told...

State officials have revoked the liquor license of a Maple Avenue bar that neighbors said was a nuisance and police say was the scene of a shooting and other trouble. The state Liquor Control Commission released its decision Tuesday, revoking the license of Sexy Cafe at 880 Maple Ave. The bar also...

HARTFORD — Paying for job-training programs for young adults with an intellectual disability makes economic sense, said parents and advocates, who called on Gov. Dannel P. Malloy to ratify the funding. The cost — $630,000 per month for the 330 young people who turned 21 this year and graduated...

A church packed with mourners gathered Tuesday morning for racing legend Ted Christopher's funeral. Christopher, a champion for decades at short track racing, died Sept. 16 when the private plane taking him to a New York racetrack crashed in North Branford. He was 59. The crash also killed the pilot,...

The unsolved 19-year-old murder of Yale student Suzanne Jovin is getting renewed attention by Connecticut law enforcement, with an assistant state’s attorney spending eight hours a week with a team of detectives working to solve the high-profile case. Details of the efforts are contained in a freedom...

Alligators, swamp snakes and voodoo priestesses aren’t usually a big threat in Connecticut, but they’re invading a corner of Lake Compounce this fall. The Voodoo Swamp is the newest feature of the Haunted Graveyard this year, where creator Ernie Romegialli plans his 19th season of Halloween-themed...

A West Hartford man pleaded guilty Monday to felony misconduct with a motor vehicle for his role in a Farmington crash that killed an Avon grandmother last fall. He faces up to five years in prison at his November sentencing. Bennett Dunbar, 27, was initially charged with second-degree manslaughter...

A Hartford Superior Court jury took two hours to convict Anthony Pernell of murder and other charges in connection with the March 2015 killing of Lilliana Restreppo. Pernell, 40, took the stand during his trial and told jurors his version of what happened the day of the shooting, but jurors did...